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Crown of Ravenclaw
Nagani
Hufflepuff's cup
Slitherins Locket
Gaunts Ring
Riddles Journal
Harry

Are what I remember for the horcruxes but how did he get into that babyish form in Book 4 which led to his ressurection in the graveyard with the bone blood and flesh?   I'm sure the answer is pretty simple but It's slipping my mind at the monment.  Was the explaination that the part that was left of his soul from his original body was just floating around?  Or what?

The only thing I have to say to this is that books, 4, 5 and 6 didn't have happy endings.  Actually all of them had really sad depressing endings.  Heck we all had to read that Harry was going to walk to his certain doom with the shadows of his loved ones.  Having Harry die at the end would have been unacceptable.  Imagine the outrage?  What a wonderful message to everyone "Work really hard, try to be a good person and fight for whats right and get murdered for your trouble".  No matter what it's still a children's book and I was impressed to the extent the author tried to play into the fact that Harry had to die. 

Now as for other comments about the middle of the book being boring I agree.  Actually I felt both 6 and 7 had a really weak 'middle' to them.  Like she was just trying to make sure the books were over 700 pages.  As for the epilogue I didn't mind it at all, the author had a choice either allow people to speculate what happens and in doing so make her life a living hell until she answers the questions or do her best to answer the questions in a somewhat imaginitive way and leave some margin for more expansion.

Heck she has already done interviews trying to answer questions like what Harry, Ron and Hermoine do for jobs.  I think too many people are too hard on her.  She was in the ultimate no win situation.  End the most successful fantasy series of all time in a way to piss off the fewest people and make it so you limit the amount of questions that are asked of you in the future.  If I were her I would have bought a large island and moved their for a few yearsso I don't get asked question after question.

Off of that rant I want to ask everyone else this.  I've been discussing it with one of my friends.  I feel that one of the overall messages in this book was the revilation that Snape didn't know what love was and what it in the end cost him.  The fact that he was in love with Lily for so long and the way he continually messed it up time and time again to the point where he didn't realize that having Voldimort not kill her wouldn't make her love him.  In fact it probably would have made her hate him even more.  I thought this was an excellent message that manifested itself in his hatred for harry even though he should have cared about him because the woman he loved sacrificed his life for him, but instead because he looked like his rival for Lily's affection he treated him badly.

Did anyone else see this or was it just me?

I really enjoyed the book as much as I could, I didn't so much read the book as I devoured it.  I was able to get alot out of it but the fear of being told the ending and basiclly barring myself from the internet for a few weeks made any time I wasn't reading the book a worry that it would be ruined.

My best freind summed it up best "It ended the only real way it could" and I agree.  I feel it was very well written (but of course my litterary experience is mostly from comic books) and did what all of the harry potter books did: Make you go back and reread one of the other books because you missed somthing that is now a central part of the story.  But there were definatly parts where I felt great emotion for the situation which is all I can ask for in any form of entertainment.  The story wrapped up well but still gave a large number of topics to debate and discuss, somthing I always enjoy.

You have to make sure the pictures arn't copyrighted by either the artists or WotC.  Thats why the Gametec proxies use different art.

I get the basic catwoman idea.  I've read enough seen enough to know of her struggle etc etc.  i wasn't really confused by that.  It was the died and given life by cats angle that I didn't understand.  I never thought that was her origin I don't think it is

Voted gold, I'd like to see more gold cards used in vintage, other than Nobel Panther

The big problem with Catwoman was the "OMFG I Died, Oh sweet cats somehow magicly brought me back to life! Now i'm going to be bad.  Wait I'm going to be good".  I'm not too big into the catwoman books but I'm pretty sure thats not anywhere close to anything that could be considered a correct origin.  I don't care if its changed a bit (read: spiderman's webbing) but they really should have renamed her panter girl or somthing and not wasted the cash on the licence for the movie.  Hell call it "See Halle Berry in leather movie"!

Only if its like the first season of spawn (the Billy Kidman story was excellent).

As for the best comic movie its got to be Sin City.  The books itself were amazing and the movie did a good job in chosing the actors/actresses for each part.  However I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of non comic book readers were a bit confused on the Marv section.  Honorable mention to the Spiderman movies (that do a good job to show the inner struggle of peter parker which I feel could have been easily lost to random action adventure garbage)

I would personally love to see a movie adaptation of Last (the last man on earth) I've been reading the trades and they are unbelievable and would make an interesting movie.  I always watned a monkey named Amprasand.

And for the worst comic movie... Daredevil, I may be biased (please see my name) but that movie was god awful.  It would be nice to know how one goes from scared little boy to superhero in one scene.  Its pretty bad when movies with Electra and an Excellent Kingpin can be that horrid, I guess thats credit to Mr. Affleck.

Thanks for the answers to my questions!  I feel much better about everything now.

Look the reason why people are scared are quite valid.  SCG needs to make money or they will have to sell their business to someone else.  I understand that, that’s great.  However SCG owns TMD now, fine.   What if someone decides to run a tournament on the same day as a SCG P9 tournament in the same geographic location?  Maybe it’s an existing TO and they throw it up on the calendar and a thread in the tournament forum.  That directly affects their business, period.  They are now paying for competition of one of their events.

Also we have discussions about their articles, about their tournaments, about their prices, and also about other websites, eBay auctions and on and on.  Those things directly affect SCG.  Will they be cool enough to allow it?  Time will tell, I know that everyone has high opinions of the owner of SCG and I'm sure they are right.  However in order to get where he is he knows how to run a business.  How is he going to feel if one of us slams his tournament, or article, or pricing etc etc etc. 

It’s a change; people have the right to be skeptical.  Time will show us how this will turn out.  Now isn’t the time for overly rosy glasses, nor is it time to start screaming the sky is falling, only time will tell.

Also he must have met the absolutly most understanding woman in the world.  "Hey hunny I don't want a carrer like a teacher I want to pretend to need an Eyepatch for tourisits!  Oh and if you wouldn't mind being a waitress that would be great so we can live in a shack!"

That my friends is a girl you marry!

Only if you dress up as Mentok the Mind Taker

Flavor Text "Everyone knows whats in Room 101" 10 points to anyone who gets the reference.

Well since black is death and green is life i thought it would be good flavor wise.  Just a suggestion

and if it is

Portal isn't a reason to be at Waterbury.  Waterbury is the reason to be at Waterbury.  I understand that its a long trip for you however when people talk about how great waterbury is they mean it.  I was able to go to one and it was amazing its the closest thing I've seen to being at a hardcore show (at least the community aspect of it).  It truly is a special time and whether we play vintage magic or Frisbee Golf it would still rule.

Didn't they have a Mechanic like this in Unglued?  or Unhinged?  I can't remember.  Anways the "game" is basicly flipping a coin since its 50/50 which makes it worse than gamble...  (in most cases)

I know its a rules nightmare but I think if you have a pack of somthing Banding has to be part of its ability I mean come on a Pack of Banding Penguins??? BRILLIANT!

I like Simple names I don't know if it fits with the overall flavor of the set but I like

Redemption

Which means:

1. Recovery of something pawned or mortgaged.
2. The payment of an obligation, as a government's payment of the value of its bonds.
3. Deliverance upon payment of ransom; rescue.

I think its a good fit for black and green, green for recovery and black for the "pawned or mortgaged" (i.e. killed) Just my .02

this card would be imediatly restricted in Vinatage and it would be even more of a win card than yawg will. 4CC for Yawg Bargain and free spells?  Way to powerful.  Of course combo would enjoy it.

making it cost X would be insane look at other color fixers like: Star Compass (costs 2 and only allows you to play mana a basic land you control) or Celestial Prism which costs 3 and makes you pay 2 and tap to get a mana of any color.  If you make it cost X here is what will happen:

Land
Mox

Tap 2

Mana Converter with 2 counters.

So now 2nd turn you could have 5 mana (if you drop another land) and have mana drain mana up first turn alot of the time. 

I agree with everything you said.  I vote you for offical voice of vintage!  I especially like the parts where you threaten people with violence.  You own. 

Anyway with the topic I am for 5-10 proxies with the "tax" however I don't want people proxying Tinder Walls and stuff I wish there was a list of cards that you can proxy up (expensive and rare cards only) and that would make it alot easier to deal with.  Most people know what Black Lotus does but most people don't know Wood Elemental does (not like it matters) so I think people complain a bit too much about the "mox on a plains" approach to proxy making.  Thats why I have made my own Aqua Teen Hunger Force Proxies! 

Yeah i think its worth it I got the $10 set and i got a foil Ancestral so that was quite awesome It would be nice if some TOs allowed them with opaque sleaves

I have a set they seem to be the same thickness but are longer than other cards :-/ So have some fun with a knife or play with the japanese sleaves which are larger type.

On note with that I would like to say that Balance has the greatest Power level vs cost of any card ever printed.  Looking on cardshark people are selling Revised Balances for $1.25.  Can't get anything else that broken for that price.

Two things one you can't take colossus but thats neither here nor there.  Also on the blue vs black argument welders have great synergy with Gifts, Intuition and Thirst.  I understand the good uses for Animate (see decks like Cerebral Assasin) and for therepy but blue gives you alot of powerful cards and when proxies are available the big ones like Ancestral Etc.  I know this makes the deck more like the traditional U/r Stax but its just some suggestions.  play what you want and enjoy.

Well I remember how the old balance deck got destoryed in the banned tourney but you shouldn't be thinking of 1995 tech for balance.  I can only imagine the amazing decks people could come up with if they could use 4x balance.  But that doesn't really matter since they will never unrestrict balance.  I'll never understand how somthing whose power you can't accuratly describe can cost 1W and no one thinks its powerful... even if it does require white mana.

I collect Ashnod's Coupon's (i have a page of foil ones) and other random cards from Unhinged/Unglued.  My friend has a ton of Tarnished Citadels (all sorts of foreign, foil etc etc)

This is the problem with everything... Not just magic, marketing has to make things so much bigger than they really are.  OMFG THE WORLD IS FALLING BUY THIS YOU NEED IT BLAH BLAH BLAH. 

On a related topic.  If you don't like the format there are OTHER formats which is fine for you to play.  I'm not saying "get out" but its an option if you don't like the current state of vintage try out another format and if you don't like that come back.  I know the cards are expensive but its supposed to be a game for fun so do what you have to to have fun.

At Smmenen:

I don't know you, I haven't met you, I've read the stuff you do on this page.  Honestly the only beef I have with you is the constant posting of your resume' on this webpage.  Every other argument you bring up is "blah blah blah" I did this I created that I masted this.  Yeah thats awesome bro we all get that and if someone is new they will learn that in time.  However, you don't need to say it in every post about everything.  Oh and fuck what everyone else says! Do what you want to do and not what people tell you to do.  Life is too short to take people's shit.